Professor Graham Currie
Director of Monash Infrastructure, Chair of Public Transport, Professor in Transport Engineering
Monash University
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Download The Latest AgendaConference Day One: Thursday, 30th August 2018
Thursday, August 30th, 2018
9:00 AM Opening Remarks by IQPC and the Conference
Chair:
11:50 AM Exploring Digital Innovations to Enhance the Light Rail Customer Experience
Facilitator:
4:40 PM International Research Innovations in Light Rail Planning
This session is an international scan of current developments in light rail planning and research. It focuses on new developments internationally and also reviews current light rail based research occurring at Monash University’s Public Transport Research Group.
- An international scan of Catenary free systems including battery, track free and super-capacitor based systems
- Customer experience innovations including new and international practices of social media for rail
- New Monash research on land use quality and place making design around light rail
- An international scan of the impacts of light rail priority on performance and new innovations identifying pragmatic approaches to planning road space for trams
- A review of new research ideas and directions affecting the field